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Tom Lloyd

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3D printing creates custom-fit knee joints

It’s not hard to get Sebastian River Medical Center and Steward Health orthopedic surgeon Dr. Anthony Ware to ...

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Listening to patient key to proper bad-back diagnosis

Dr. Craig Popp, a board-certified and fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon with Vero Orthopaedics & Neurology, isn’t likely run out ...

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IRMC at heart of program to cut hospital readmissions

Indian River Medical Center and its Welsh Heart Center are once again moving into some elite territory, thanks ...

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Venomous fish pose greater danger than sharks

With the return of warm weather, Vero beaches are about to get crowded – and, sometimes, downright dangerous, ...

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Team Chavez consumed with chronic care management

According to the New York Times, a mere 5 percent of this country’s population accounts for nearly half ...

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Sebastian hospital ‘desperately’ short of volunteers

Tennessee, not Florida, is known as “the Volunteer State,” but at the Sebastian River Medical Center, Anthony Gabriel, ...

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Need a hand surgery specialist? Elementary … it’s Dr. Watson

When orthopedic surgeon Dr. Michael Watson was recruited by the Steward Medical Group to move his practice here ...

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Dentists become first line of defense against sleep apnea

Everybody knows – or thinks they know – what to expect from a trip to the dentist. But ...

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SRMC set for expansion under new owner

The planned expansion of the Sebastian River Medical Center, which will include a 3-story tower with 94,000 square ...

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Doc sounds the alarm on risk of over-medication for seniors

Dr. Raman Ashta is hardly the first person to move south to Vero Beach in order to spend ...

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In treating heart failure, hard to beat ‘team’ approach

If you had taken a snapshot of heart failure in America just a couple of years ago, it ...

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TrueBeam surgery still on ‘cutting edge’ as cancer-killer

Newly arrived radiation oncologist Dr. Paul Pagnini of the Scully-Welsh cancer center is up for a knife fight. ...